The Multiverse According to Ben

You may have already seen the new version of Ray Kurzweil's "Ramona" chatbot on the lovely new Kurzweilai.net website ... if n...

After some interesting conversations about psi with Damien Broderick, I couldn't resist spending a half-day writing up some old ideas I ...

A friend forwarded me a recent New Scientist article containing some freaky, grandiose anti-AI rhetoric... Some interesting tidbits about cl...

I finally did a more careful write-up of some ideas I developed in blog posts a while ago, about how to model reflective consciousness, self...

One of my AI collaborators from the late 1990s, Alexandru Czimbor, recently suggested I take a look at Peter Gardenfors book " Conceptu...

At the Toward a Scinece of Consciousness conference earlier this week, I picked up a rather interesting book to read on the flight home: Hen...

I thought more about the ideas in my previous blog post on the "Chinese Parent Theorem," and while I didn't do a formal proof ...

Continuing my series of (hopefully edu-taining ;) blog posts presenting speculations on goal systems for superhuman AGI systems, this one de...

The theme of this post is a simple and important one: how to create AGI systems whose beneficialness to humans and other sentient beings can...

One approach to creating a superhuman AGI with a reasonably high likelihood of being beneficial to humans is to separate "goal system s...

Today I tried out Siri, the new AI "personal assistant" app for the iPhone. It has some very smart people behind it, and is base...